Talented teams stay mostly vanilla

12:49 AM,
Aug. 17, 2013

Oakland's Darryle Hood Jr. rushes up the middle against Blackman at Siegel on Friday.

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The District 7-AAA preseason favorites showed very little Friday night in both teams' final dress rehearsal before next week's start to the high school football season.

Blackman and Oakland left Siegel's Ken Nolan Stadium with a scorless tie in their half of football in the second annual Rutherford County Football Jamboree.

"It was sloppy - sloppy on both sides, which is why we do this," Oakland coach Thomas McDaniel said. "Obviously, both of us were pretty vanilla. I thought we did some good things. Blackman did some good things that we've got to correct on film. ...